Word: chamberlin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Edward H. Chamberlin, assistant professor of Economics, has been granted a leave of absence for the second half of the academic year in order to serve in an advisory capacity in Washington, it was announced last night. He will work with the Committee on Government Statistics and Information Services, a bureau set up under the direction of the Rockefeller Foundation...
...Committee with which I shall work," said Professor Chamberlin in a statement to the CRIMSON, "is not officially a part of the Administration, but acts in an advisory capacity to the various bureaus and departments of the Government. It is for this reason that it offers peculiar advantages in studying the administrative problems which have arisen in connection with the New Deal...
...ECONOMICS OF THE RECOVERY PROGRAM. Whittlesey House, McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York and London. 1934. $1.50. Depressions by Joseph A. Schumpeter, Purchasing Power by Edward Chamberlin, Controlling Industry by Edward S. Mason, Helping the Worker by Douglas V. Brown, Higher Prices by Seymour E. Harris, Helping the Farmer by Wassily W. Leontief, Economics versus Politics by Overton H. Taylor...
...contribution to the clarification of current thinking on economic questions is most heartily to be welcomed. It is, for instance, refreshing to hear some one deal with the subject of purchasing power without falling into the loose talk so characteristic of newspaper and magazine articles and political speeches. Professor Chamberlin yet the government itself is anxious that business shall be reassured, that capital shall have a chance to earn a fair return and that the volume of transactions may increase and more people shall be employed...
Engines. Last week Clarence Duncan Chamberlin marched into print with a charge that the increase in transport accidents since last summer was due to the inability of new twin-engined planes to take off and fly safely on one engine. Few nights later a twin-engined Curtiss Condor of American Airways, flown by Dean Smith, onetime Byrd antarctic pilot, had engine trouble between Buffalo and Detroit, flopped down, with nine passengers and a crew of three, upon the thinly iced surface of Lake St. Clair, near Windsor. Ont. With wheels retracted, the plane bumped through the ice while the lower...